Gender PoliticsArticles

This 2026 analysis moves beyond counting women in office to examine the colonial and institutional structures that continue to restrict political authority in West and Central Africa.

This Beijing+25 regional synthesis measures progress and persistent gaps across work, care, violence, health, and political power, giving South Asian feminist claims a comparative policy baseline.

Written after Lebanon’s October 2019 uprising, Carmen Geha asks how women’s visible leadership in protest can become substantive power without being absorbed as symbolic representation.